The myriad duties and responsibilities of corporate executives to manage and direct the day-to-day operations of companies make their involvement in litigation unduly burdensome to them and their organizations

On October 20, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued important new guidance that shifts the DOJ’s policy regarding agreements relating to the hiring and compensation of employees

Mediation in trademark disputes is increasingly common. The International Trademark Association (INTA) reports that mediation settlement rates for intellectual property disputes may be as high as 70%. INTA, the World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO), and the European Union Intellectual...

The US “domestic entity acquisition” (“DEA,” aka “inversion”) rules must be considered whenever any stock or options of a foreign acquiring corporation (“FA”) are issued in a transaction with a US corporation or partnership (“USco”) to former USco equity holders

Historically, plaintiffs’ lawyers around the world have viewed the United States as the most plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction, and sought to file their cases in U.S. courts even when the underlying parties and facts have much stronger ties to other countries

The American wage and hour litigation wave continues, and the essential areas of focus for corporate employers in successfully defending these actions is increasingly centering on a “back to basics” approach

The past year has been mixed for alternative funds. In the hedge fund space, industry assets under management increased by $70 billion to $3.22 trillion, despite lackluster overall returns and noisy withdrawals by certain institutional investors

The America Invents Act has significantly changed the patent litigation landscape in the U.S. It created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and three new principal post-grant review mechanisms: PGR, IPR, and CBMR (“PTAB Trials”)

On April 6, 2016, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s comments regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) decision to file a lawsuit to block the $35 billion Halliburton/Baker Hughes merger highlighted the agency’s views towards divestitures generally

The legal obligation of policing a mark is what a trademark owner likes least. After all, a trademark owner undertakes considerable costs in developing a mark, advertising and promoting it so that the mark has commercial success for the goods and/or services with which it is used. When a mark...